12 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
21315 | A tree remains the same in the popular sense, but not in the strict philosophical sense [Butler] |
21317 | Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person [Butler] |
21313 | If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then [Butler] |
21314 | Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it [Butler] |
21318 | If the self changes, we have no responsibilities, and no interest in past or future [Butler] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |